GreenInNC
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Thu Nov-13-08 08:41 PM
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Fr. Roy Bourgeois (founder of School of the Americas Watch) faces excommunication |
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Earlier this year Fr. Roy participated in the ordination of several women into the priesthood and now faces excommunication by the vatican. http://thechristianradical.blogspot.com/2008/11/rev-roy-bourgeois-facing.html
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Thu Nov-13-08 08:47 PM
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1. he's worth more as a human being than the rest of the church hierarchy put together. |
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Thu Nov-13-08 08:48 PM
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2. That's the price people in established institutions pay for being ahead of their time |
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Four hundred years ago the punishment would have been much worse.
Blessings upon you, Fr. Bourgeois. May you walk in righteousness and fear no evil.
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Thu Nov-13-08 08:48 PM
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3. I know it's an old complaint, but why is raping children not excommunicatable, |
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but doing something that harms no one - except the power structure of male-centric power-hungry Catholic upper echelon sitting on a fortune of trillions of dollars of treasures - leads to excommunication, defrocking, and other penalties.
Oh, wait, I guess I answered that myself.
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Thu Nov-13-08 09:06 PM
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4. God loves him even more when he faces evil. God will be with him if he leaves. |
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the church can go to extinction without his grace.
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Thu Nov-13-08 09:12 PM
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The Church needs to do some research.
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Thu Nov-13-08 10:49 PM
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6. In a hundred years they will make him a saint. |
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The Church is always playing catch up.
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